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By the way, Zhao, I liked these "spaced out" threads too, that was a more fun time in Dissensus when Gek (one of the alltime best posters here) was still around. People were more prolific and talking from personal experience, which for my entertainment buck is more fun than the endless...

Luka's just being a douchebag, really. We all know how he operates.

It's ok Zhao. Really, drugs always make a relationship go south, there's no way to be in a "healthy" relationship with a drug addict. And I was a drug addict. At the time, I wasn't ready to change, so I didn't. But it's all good now. As good as it can be. Thanks for talking afterward by the...

Did you know that it's thought that most grown men who behave passive-aggressively have daddy issues? No, I just made that up.* *But it seems that way, doesn't it?

Um, why did you think that? I love it when you get passive-aggressive though, it's so cute.

Yes, luka, you are the paragon of maturity! If only we could all be more like youuuuu!!!!!!

Aha! I knew there was a thread where Baboon said that. See, I was not imagining that.

Cool, this one was on the sidebar too: ants dispense with sex and evolves into all-female species. I've heard geneticists say that the y chromosome in humans is losing genes and genetic variability all the time, while the x is gaining them. Apparently, some scientists think human males will...

In the American new athiest community, people sign correspondences with "Tax Religion," instead of "Sincerely yours,"... If those stripmall astrologers have to pay taxes, the rest of the sky-readers should. It's only fair.

Zhao's post-Edenic "fallen" worldview here is a sort of new age reappropriation of a whole bunch of religious beliefs. You could call it religion stew. It's fine if he believes this of course--and I suppose I can see the appeal of drawing together the common threads of religions from all sorts...

Really new research that links autism to mom's autoimmune disorder, which is interesting because autoimmune disorders have been steadily rising in women for the past 50 years or so and most people blame it on industrial waste products in the environment. This is really the money quote:

Really cool...we're apparently very good at sensing people behind us without really seeing them, and that's a function that the amygdala regulates...I read an article about how doctors (I think Oliver Sachs was involved) had shown that if a person's amydala was continuously stimulated with...

Don't you mean intelligently designed into us? Never forget that you are "fearfully and wonderfully made"--to fester and rot in some hell hole of competing bacteria and killing machines.

Within the biosphere, life and death form a kind of continuum where no simple, clean separation can be maintained between matter that is in these two states. When I die, and all electro-chemical impulses eventually cease flowing through my body, then I'll stop having thoughts and feelings and...

Edit: scratch that, that one's way off I'll look for a better one. I'm pretty sure the US has the highest rate in the world with one in 155 babies being born everday having autism. What if--and this is just obviously off the cuff--there are two types of autism? One is the traditional late-onset...

Very interesting, T. Check out this article that lists the discovery of infantile autism and the beginning of its rise starting in the 40s. (P.S. Though you probably know more about this than I do, I'm pretty sure there was testing in the 50s and 60s on the mainland--not like there was pre- or...

I don't know if I'm going to catch teh ban for posting this :rolleyes: but yeah, Zhao, I think the talk about "becoming-schizophrenic" is more metaphorical than literal, if you know what I mean. They took schizophrenia as a sort of metaphorical condition that could help people transcend the...

It's not even really "fragility" per se that does it... I just don't think scenes where women throw up after touching a guy's penis on the bus are anything more than misogynistic fantasies about how a "good girl's" revulsion to sex outside of a relationship should play out, you know what I mean...

And because my tolerance for sub-sophomoric 'discussion' has once again gone up in smoke...

Oh, the irony! I bet you have a black friend, too! (Oh, excuse me, a black "mate"--I keep forgetting, we're all Brits here.) That means you know about racism.